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President Obama claimed on Monday that he’s a “pretty friendly guy” who likes “a good party.”

He has great relationships with Republicans, he said, and enjoys lawmakers’ company.

Now that his daughters are getting older and don’t want to spend as much time with him, he’d “probably be calling around, looking for someone to play cards with me or something, because I’m getting kind of lonely in this big house ... So maybe a whole bunch of members of the House Republican caucus want to come over and socialize more.”